Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding
This Chocolate Chip Bread Pudding recipe is made from toasted enriched bread that is covered in sweet egg custard and topped with lots of chocolate chips and baked until golden. It is absolutely delicious and the ultimate chocolatey baked dessert.
Servings: 10 people
Calories: 590kcal
Equipment
- 1x oven dish 19cmx30cmx7cm (8x12x3 inches)
- 1x larger oven dish/ roasting pan
Ingredients
- 750 g enriched bread
- 4 eggs extra-large
- 4 egg yolks
- 250 ml heavy cream
- 750 ml milk
- 250 g sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla pod
- 150 g chocolate chips
- 50 g icing sugar for dusting
- 20 g unsalted butter for buttering the dish
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and generously butter an oven-proof casserole dish.
- Start by slicing the bread into slices of an even thickness. Toast the bread lightly in either the oven or a toaster. Set aside 3 of the slices and slice these further into cubes of about 3cm. Reserve the bread cubes for the top of the bread pudding.
- In a large bowl add the cream, milk, eggs, vanilla extract, and the seeds from the vanilla pod. Whisk until well combined.
- Cover the bottom of the prepared baking dish with a layer of toasted bread, and sprinkle a layer of chocolate chips on top of this. Continue in the same way with the next two layers and for the last layer add the cubed bread and the rest of the chocolate chips.
- Pour the egg and milk mixture over the top of the bread pudding. Allow the bread to soak up the mixture for about 5 minutes. Cover the pudding with aluminum foil and poke a few holes into the foil.
- Carefully place the dish containing the pudding into a slightly larger over-proof dish and fill this dish with water. Creating a water bath for the pudding.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 40 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for a further 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and a skewer inserted into the center of the pudding comes out clean.
- Allow the dessert to set for about an hour after it has finished baking, then dust it with icing sugar and serve it warm with cream, vanilla ice cream, or custard.
Nutrition
Calories: 590kcal | Carbohydrates: 80g | Protein: 14g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 219mg | Sodium: 350mg | Potassium: 303mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 44g | Vitamin A: 852IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 212mg | Iron: 3mg
